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Click on the numbers to see the image. These were taken with a Philips model-675 webcam, with 640x480 resolution, and a Linux laptop. Sorry about the focus and exposures, I'm not much of a photographer and these are the first pictures I've taken in maybe 20 years.
These pictures are listed in the chronological order. You are following my path through the cemetery.
1. The Rockville Cemetery is located along the north side of Old Route 28, also known locally as "Baltimore Road". This is the "flat part". You can't really see them, but when I pulled up, there was a slightly goth grrlie and her friend. By the time I got the camera out, they were off in the distance a bit too far to image, but they're in there somewhere. They had been out there taking photos, too.
2. This is a spiffy mausoleum.
3. This is another spiffy mausoleum, looking up the hill. This cemetery is located near the "historic Rockville Civic Center", which is located off of a branch of upper Rock Creek.
4. Some spiffy gravestones.
5. Some more spiffy gravestones, and an obelisk or two, about four feet tall.
6. A neat cross and some flat markers.
7. An overexposed shot looking back towards the creek.
8. The spiffy mausoleum from the first image of the hillside area.
9. Another similar shot of the same spiffy mausoleum.
10. Up on the hilltop, looking at a nice cross, another nice cross, a slightly massive obelisk and a big boxy monument.
11. Another image of the same scene.
12. This is not spiffy. Vandals had been at work in the cemetery. Here is a monument they tumbled from its pedestal.
13. James R. Braddock has a spiffy tombstone, but it seems that it also was tumbled from its pedestal. But some kind soul has righted it and propped it up.
14. Here's another image of Mr Braddock's stone.
15. P J Slayman has their stone dislodged, as well. Cemetery vandalism is so disrespectful; I hope someone goes to jail for this.
16. Here is a nice old cross, looking towards a large obelisk. Note the nifty glade to the left of the image.
17. Here is a closer look at the glade, and another vandalized memorial stone.
18. Stones for John H Settle and Gladys Settle Benson, just to the right of the glade as seen in the first image.
19. This tree has been here for a while. Notice that the curb over which it has grown has clearly been there for a while as well. Baltimore Road, nearby, is a very old roadbed, leading from Rockville -- a county seat -- to the port of Baltimore.
20. Another shot of this spiffy tree and some stones.
21. A stone for someone in the Veirs family -- a very old family hereabouts -- and a truly cool large Celtic-style cross for someone from the Bradley family.
22. Here's another similar image.
23. Here's a sidewise image of a fairly large cross, sadly vandalized.
24. A spiffy plinth.
25. A spiffy obelisk.
26. A view from the rear of the Celtic-style cross, looking back past the gnarly tree, towards the spiffy hillside mausoleum.
27. A sunny view of a variety of stones, including a massive plinth and a tall memorial which is in the form of a fluted classic column, broken at the top.
28. The stone of Raymond Forster, September 21 1875 to March 28, 1957.
29. "In Remembrance of Ellen Olivia Choate, beloved wife of Rufus Choate. -- "Her Pure and Noble Life Gives Certainty of a Conscious and Eternal Immortality in Heaven." 1953 to 1935.
30. A memorial for someone from the Bogley family, complete with an angel that has suffered with time.
31. A view looking along the side of the hill, past a row of stones and in the direction of the spiffy mausoleums on the hillside.